It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

In the early 1950s the company was taken over by the Remington Rand corporation and it was while Grace Hopper was working for them that her original compiler work was done. ” And I back ‘em up. Philip Crane saw her on a March 1983 segment of 60 Minutes he championed H.

S. Owing to the breadth of her accomplishments and her naval rank Grace Hopper is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace". A pioneer in the field Grace Hopper was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language.